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The American people are so fed up from being told—when they want immigration laws enacted which they believe will serve their national interest and when they also want the law enforced—that they are being cruel and mean-spirited and racist. They are fed up with efforts to make them feel that Americans do not have that fundamental right of any people—to decide who will join them here and help them form the future country in which they and their posterity will live …

Senator Simpson’s observation would of course be just as pertinent today. There you see one of the more dismal, more depressing aspects of arguing for patriotic immigration reform: the fog of stasis that hangs over the whole topic. 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011, … It’s like Groundhog Day.

We state the same plain facts and advance the same reasonable arguments; Open-Borders proponents respond with the same threadbare charges—cruel! mean-spirited! racist!—and nothing changes, nothing changes.

I tell you: agitating for patriotic immigration reform is a real test of stamina.

Comparing the two editions, the first thing you notice is the abridgment. The 2011 version had 514 pages of main text, including (by Steve’s count) 993 footnotes at the ends of chapters. This new edition is 344 pages with 777 footnotes, all gathered together at the end of the book—a much more convenient arrangement. Because of format differences (e.g. smaller font), that slightly overstates the degree of abridgment; but this is certainly a handier edition, more concentrated on the United States. The 76 pages on post-WW2 immigration into Europe in the 2011 edition, for example, has been trimmed down to a single chapter of 24 pages.

What is paleoanthropology doing in a book about immigration? Fulfilling the promise of the book’s title, that’s what. Writes the author:

An important contention of this book is that large-scale immigration is bound to have consequences for a nation, not all of which are easily foreseeable.

We can, though, get a clue about those consequences by going to the human sciences. What do they tell us about the likely result of importing great numbers of persons from nation (or race, or culture, or religion) X into nation Y?

Some of the science here is perforce speculative; but the speculation is well-reasoned, supported by much evidence, and on a plane of sophistication far above the silly vaporings of the “no such thing as race” ideologues and the cheery assurances of economists that human beings are perfectly fungible units of production and consumption.

In market economies, per capita GDP is directly proportional to the population fraction with verbal IQ equal to or greater than 106.

This survey of the relevant human sciences is followed by a good historical account—six whole chapters—of U.S. immigration policy from the early colonial settlements through to the present day, with that supplementary chapter on post-WW2 immigration into Europe.

There are some interesting insights here. The insouciance of recent U.S. administrations towards immigration from Latin America, for example, had its origins in the two-tiered system that evolved during the 1930s and 1940s:

European immigration, the first tier, came under the control of the State Department which required immigrants to obtain visas and undergo investigation by consular officials in the home countries …

The second tier of the immigration bureaucracy involved immigration from the Americas, which was administered separately from European immigration by the Immigration Bureau and the Labor Department. This was largely the result of Southern and Western interests who benefited from inexpensive Mexican farm labor.

No kidding.

Later in this historical section Prof. Roth gives caustic accounts of the efforts by cheap-labor lobbies to manipulate our numerous guest-worker programs to the disadvantage of Americans. On the H-2B visa for unskilled, seasonal, non-agricultural workers, for example:

In January 2009 in the midst of the recession, the Department of Labor revised its definition of a labor shortage to merely require an employer to attest, rather than document, that qualified U.S. workers could not be found within his employment area. But that employment area was often ludicrously limited to, say, a small town. Of course, it might be difficult for Aspen Skiing Company to find sufficient ski instructors in the village of Aspen, but w ould it be difficult if the search were nationwide? If they can house a ski instructor from Romania, can they not house one from Denver?

The book’s account of these recent developments reinforces one’s impression that our immigration policy in recent years has been, from top to bottom, a cheap-labor racket—an open conspiracy against American working people.

The greater value of Perils of Diversity, though, is as an eye-opener to people less familiar, or not familiar at all, with the issues we discuss here at VDARE.com.

If all you know about the National Question is the blithe vacuities of TV talking heads and newspaper pundits bought and sold by the cheap-labor racketeers, Prof. Roth’s book is essential reading: a comprehensive, well-documented survey of all the issues.

Should you know anyone as innocent as that, but open-minded and keen to be informed, Perils of Diversity would make a great Christmas present.

The book’s account of these recent developments reinforces one’s impression that our immigration policy in recent years has been, from top to bottom, a cheap-labor racket—an open conspiracy against American working people.

Except that it wasn’t. At various points in time since the 1960s, immigration policies in many white countries were specifically changed to undermine, divide, dilute and ultimately genocide the white race. Cheap labour is just a side benefit. As a matter of fact, cheap labour would have been much more efficient and productive if the “elite” were mass-importing normal/high IQ whites or East Asians. The formula is: the number of worker bees + their desperation (oversupply) * productivity (IQ).

And you’d have to be blind not to see scarlet red flags when Europe (20% youth unemployment) hoards every rubber-boat, sub-Saharan nig-nog it can find in the Mediterranean – right at the time when automation is wiping out all the jobs they, and their future offspring, could possibly do (except Taharrush, but that’s another story).

I concur that IQ is highly relevant for the wealth of a nation, but wonder about the robustness of verbal performance mattering and a threshold of 106. How much of that result is brewed from Japan, Korea, and China’s performance? China is hard to characterize as they’re still recovering from communism. Japan has a large problem of an aging workforce, presumable unrelated to their high spatial relative to verbal IQ. I don’t know much about Korea. How confident are we that overall IQ isn’t what matters? At present, smart fractions feels like a theory that was tailored to fit a small number of countries. I’m trying to imagine an anti-Oriental race with high verbal and low spatial IQ, and how a country of such people would function. I would expect many lawyers and mangers, which does not seem directly connected to wealth creation.

It starts with control of the language of the debate: In the UK and Europe, officialdom and the MSM still prefer to use the term ‘refugee’ rather than ‘migrant’ or, worse still for their purposes, ‘economic migrant.’

And, coming soon to the US, no doubt, in the UK you can no longer round up migrants ‘sleeping rough’ (on the streets with the intent to deport them. No, once you’ve set foot on the Magic Dirt®, you’re in, and ostensibly entitled to benefits or a job, because you’ve gotta do something with them.

No, Derb, we are indeed doomed, both by our gullibility and the treachery of those we entrusted to govern on our behalf.

These are not immigrants, they are colonists. They intend to create colonies of their own people and culture within our land, and expand gradually over time. They have the power to do it. It’s a slow-motion invasion.

They are not here undocumented, but rather are lawbreaking. Illegal colonists.

The Indians suffered something similar four centuries ago. Let’s learn from their sorrow.

They intend to create colonies of their own people and culture within our land

It’s already a reality in European no-go zones. Anyone who’s still naive about their intentions should try living there. The truth is that the current no-go zones are just a soft preview of what’s to come. They don’t have the numbers yet to really make a wider impact.

What did I get out of all of this? The same I already knew, the country and the West is cooked.
Nothing will alter the direction of white replacement.
The Injuns knew this but at least they had an opportunity and will to fight.

John has always been right even if he keeps up the fight. We Are Doomed.

The difference is that the Native Americans hadn’t built anything. No roads, sewers, electrical grids, schools, hospitals, water treatment plants. It was a wilderness. Other than that, yeah, the comparison is perfect.

“At various points in time since the 1960s, immigration policies in many white countries were specifically changed to undermine, divide, dilute and ultimately genocide the white race.”

Corrected for accuracy –> Immigration policies in many white countries were specifically changed by the people through their representatives, with no mandate to undermine, divide, dilute, and ultimately genocide the white race.

You meant to say that Native Americans hadn’t built modern things. They were perfectly content with their own society, however rudimentary in technology compared to outsiders. Remember, innovational prowess is NOT the definitive measure of a successful civilization.

Let’s take your point one step further. Alt Right leader Vox Day states “We’ve lost our knowledge of and connection to American heritage because many, if not most, US citizens are not Americans by any definition except paperwork. It shouldn’t be surprising that Germans, Irish, Italians, Jews, Mexicans, and Chinese never had any interest or ability to transform themselves into the independent yeomen who historically existed only in England prior to the establishment of the United States by predominantly English settlers.”

Basically, three-fourths of today’s Americans, the bulwark of the readership on this fine blog, are not “true Americans”.

As John Derbyshire reminds us, the issue was indeed there already in 1981. Hence Reagan’s amnesty in 1986. But one curious thing is that John immigrated to the US in the eighties and, if memory serves, became a US citizen much later, in the 90s or 2000s, by virtue of the very immigration laws he now fights to get abolished. Had they been abolished at time, or never enacted to begin with, one of the most vehement anti-immigration campaigners in the US would have never been allowed to… immigrate to the US. I wonder how he rationalizes this paradox.

“Immigration policies in many white countries were specifically changed by the people through their representatives…”

Since when does Congress represent the people? Oh sure, in high school civics classes that’s what they teach, but in many if not most cases that’s not how it works. Newly elected members of congress, regardless of party, vote as they’re told to by the leadership, and if they don’t they get shi**y committee assignments, cramped offices, and no reelection fundraising help. And the leadership of both parties are owned by open borders interests, which basically includes every powerful institution in the country, i.e. big business, big labor, media and entertainment, the education lobby, the trial bar, the “non-profit” sector, and the religious establishment.

On this, and I would say most other issues, the people have little to no say over how their country is run.

“Oh sure, in high school civics classes that’s what they teach, but in many if not most cases that’s not how it works.”

Certainly we have major issues in our country. So why not be a sport and run for office?

“Newly elected members of congress, regardless of party, vote as they’re told to by the leadership, and if they don’t they get shi**y committee assignments, cramped offices, and no reelection fundraising help.”

That’s not necessarily the case.

“And the leadership of both parties are owned by open borders interests, which basically includes every powerful institution in the country, i.e. big business, big labor, media and entertainment, the education lobby, the trial bar, the “non-profit” sector, and the religious establishment.”

Again, run for office. Heed The Donald’s call–Make America Great Again.

Yes. You’re missing the Faustian spirit that only Caucasians/Europeans have. Asians are second to Caucasians in IQ and creativity. The most intelligent Asians are the Japanese, with the Chinese and Koreans in 2nd and 3rd place. The West has been the most creative and created the most wealth in history. It was the West’s Faustian spirit that enabled it to explore and conquer the world. You see this spirit around you in the USA, Europe, certain countries in Latin America.

“John immigrated to the US in the eighties and, if memory serves, became a US citizen much later, in the 90s or 2000s, by virtue of the very immigration laws he now fights to get abolished” Yes, and he imported a Chinese woman for a wife and has Chinese offspring. His Chinese wife and daughter were Obummer voters. This man cannot “rationalize this paradox.” He is a an evil hypocrite, semitophile and coward. How he got in the USA is a mystery to me. But he is nothing but trouble now. He refuses to deal with the problems of illegal Chinese immigration. Gee, I wonder why?

Which people? Brexit people or MAGA people? Or is it the Visegrad Group people – or even the rest of European people who don’t want the EU deciding their immigration policies (link below)? Those people are the democratic majority now. They have overcome absolutely unprecedented levels of pro-immigrant indoctrination and slander just to be ignored and vilified now at the policy level. Where’s your democracy now, Corvinus? What should their “representatives” do?

Pro-race is code for anti-humanity.

Is your house pro-race? How many Africans have you invited to share your house and inherit it after your death?

Fine column as usual, Derb, although I prefer the term “cheap labor billionaires” for the scum who are selling Americans down the river of 3d world immigration.
But America doesn’t need to “reform” immigration, it needs to halt immigration. All of it, legal or illegal, and then start doing a Netanyahu on the ones who are already here.

Of course the people of a nation will want their leaders to make immigration decisions over the EU, that isn’t news. In fact, it is supporting my contention that the people will ultimately choose through their representatives.

“How many Africans have you invited to share your house and inherit it after your death?”

What an inane argument you make. Just because people support immigration does not mean they are required to house and feed those newcomers. Rather, it means immigration supporters of the mindset that they are given opportunities to make their own life, provided they meet the criteria set forth by a government.

Again, I have stated that if the people vote to limit immigration to our nation, fine. What I oppose is this notion that certain groups of immigrants are ALL or MOSTLY 1) dangerous, 2) demand “free stuff”, and 3) will run roughshod over our nation with their “barbarian ways”.

Well, well, well, the anti-white, Turkish, atheist, jihadi is back. The last time we exchanged comments you were defending Derbyshire and announced you wouldn’t care if his wife was an aborigine.

I’ve noticed there are other commentators who use the Anonymous name. Rename yourself something like, oh Turkish Delight. It makes it easier to identify you. This way you can’t pull that taqiyaa stuff on us. Once again, you’re projecting.

The English are not technically Aryan, but they’ve done some pretty Aryan stuff. The British Empire, landing on the moon (American WASPs), to name a few.

turkey (as in dud) has the cat got your fingers since you’ve typed no response? So, once again, you have revealed yourself. Your acceptance of an aborigine wife (there’s your “negro admixture” as aborigines are consider black/Asian) is also a reflection of the type of woman you like. You’re face planted in Asian puntang, a la Derbyshire.

But I see the bigger picture. I’m seeing this pattern on other websites. This fear of Caucasians uniting. The same stupid comments about Greeks, Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans. You know you don’t belong. Your obsession with Germans makes me think you had problems with Germans and Austrians. I went to school in Austria and have the most pleasant memories of that time. Again, give yourself the name “Turkish delight” so we know who you really are.

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By the way past is not past. The Tibetans in South Tibet (Arunachal Pradesh) are still paying the price everyday under brutal India rule because of British travesty. Karma is a bitch and Britain will eventually pay.

Derbyshire, 2018: "Nationalism-wise, there’s a contradiction in there, though. As militaristic imperialists, the Germans and the Japanese had no time for anyone else’s nationalism. They both knew, as imperialists have known since civilization began, that nationalism is the bane of imperialism...

"Do as the Japanese have done. Look within, marshal your resources, plot your own course and develop yourself. The past is the past. Chin up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself."
And stop lecturing. Who do you think you are?

I don't think the British could teach the Chinese or Indians a thing about thuggery or invasion or slaughter. The warlords of China and India were cruel and cold hearted enough on their own. Their savagery stood on its own merits.
Don't get into black people's habit of blaming others for your ow...

Peaceful nationalism took it's time to come into existence, but then, it seemed to work. If I look at - - - - Sweden, Finnland, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark etc. Japan (1945 ff.), Switzerland (no more wars since the early nineteenth century - and the last wars something, which should be studi...

If all nations are open to all, then no one will have a sense of home. It’s funny that the people who did most to regain their homeland, the Jews, are now doing the most to rob others of their homelands.
It's funny too, that the Jews in Israel are ferociously againstt the UN-compact on Migra...

"Enlightened nationalism" is surprisingly hard though.
Most nationalists have an asshole streak that prevents them from getting along with other nationalists for very long. Eventually they end up offending, hating, even attacking each other based on differences or paranoia based on exaggerated t...

Yes Derbyshire, you need to be a nationalist - in China!!! You have written that Asians are smarter than whites. You cherish the East, not the West. You and your Chinese family need to go back to China and make it great again!!!

Most Brits today don't see their colonial past as the proudest moment in British history. But the sad fact is that India has been schooled in the art of thuggery by Britain and behave just like colonial Britain when it comes to its neighbors. I mean land grabbing and bullying. Here I repost on...

And I assume Frank Richards expected people in other countries to feel the same way about his people and their sense of humor, at the least the self-respecting ones.
Sounds nice but in practice there is nothing the typical nationalist hates more than a taste of his own medicine. Case in point: J...

I like living in a relatively affluent safe place that has a responsible honest government, with sociable neighbors. The sole utility of nationalism in my mind is to preserve what we have left of that.

"Cyril Mortimer taught my primary-school class back around 1955 that there are no true synonyms": aha, I was better taught. Or at least taught otherwise. We were told there were two cases of exact synonyms. One was whins/gorse. (Would furze count too?)
But I can't remember the other one.
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The aggressor powers in WW2, Germany and Japan, had state ideologies of militaristic imperialism,...
It would help if you read some real history, instead of the bullshit propagated by the Holocaust industry.

My eyes glazed over when I found out the thug was the British Empire. The best run Chinese States today are Hong Kong and Singapore. The Pearl river emporium of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou are a real pearl compared with the still coprophilic conditions up north. You have to get up to Japane...

Cyril Mortimer taught my primary-school class back around 1955 that there are no true synonyms; that even words closely related in meaning have different shades of color, different usages and connotations. Mr. Mortimer was right.
Not even furze and gorse?
http://www.wildflowersofireland.n...

And I assume Frank Richards expected people in other countries to feel the same way about his people and their sense of humor, at the least the self-respecting ones.
Patriotism is funny that way: I believe my country is better than the other guy’s and I would expect him to feel the same way...

Having a nation means there is ONE place in the world where you can feel at home.
Hungarians can have a nice time all around the world, but they can't feel at home in most of the world. They are only guests. But in Hungary, they can feel 'home'.
It's like people visit other homes but they...

"Nationalist impulses may be harnessed by imperialism, but imperialism is fundamentally anti-nationalist. Ask a Tibetan."
This is so true, and this is why India has been so heavy hand on South Tibet. For years South Tibet is restless and the people there are seething with anger and India knows ...